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SP ToyNewsI #198

by David Willis on June 13, 2010 at 11:49 am
Posted In: Blog


└ Tags: ethan, tni strips, transformers, war for cybertron

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  1. Alexander Krizak
    Alexander Krizak
    June 13, 2010 at 1:24 pm | # | Reply

    Alright, missing all of the other stuff is inexcusable, but you can’t blame them for forgetting about Beast Machines. God knows I want to.

  2. Monty Prime
    Monty Prime
    June 13, 2010 at 1:52 pm | # | Reply

    Maybe this version of Cybertron has never been seen before? Even though it looks exactly like the others…

    And you forgot the movie prequel comics, and the flashback bit in the first movie.

  3. Andrew Perron
    Andrew Perron
    June 13, 2010 at 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    And bits and pieces of Animated.

    • David Willis
      David Willis
      June 13, 2010 at 3:50 pm | # | Reply

      I left more things out than I can count, but I think the point is made nonetheless.

  4. E. Wilson
    E. Wilson
    June 13, 2010 at 4:36 pm | # | Reply

    Right, but for normal people, this’ll be the first time they’ve seen it.

    Which is weird, because the game isn’t being promoted to normal people that much, yet. (And Beast Machines was awesome.)

    • David Willis
      David Willis
      June 13, 2010 at 5:22 pm | # | Reply

      Define “normal people”? Because the only Transformers series that hasn’t shown Cybertron was Robots in Disguise. If you’ve ever seen anything Transformers, you’ve seen Cybertron. And if you haven’t, why do you care about this game in the first place? You’re certainly not the “Transformers fans” who’ve been “demanding to see Cybertron” that the guys who make this thing are aiming at.

      • E. Wilson
        E. Wilson
        June 13, 2010 at 11:02 pm | # | Reply

        I’d say the ‘normal person’ would be the one who knows most of their Transformers mythos from the movies, which didn’t show much of Cybertron outside of a flashback or two. I think the game is being designed with TF fans in mind, but the promotional push indicates they’re aiming beyond our numbers.

  5. xero
    xero
    June 13, 2010 at 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    ethan for got the original transformers animated movie and the new one they show the Matrix being shot into space and the prequel comic takes place entirely on Cybertron

    also several episodes of Transformers Animated including an entire episode showing the backstory of Bulkhead Hotshot and Waspinator

    • Monty Prime
      Monty Prime
      June 13, 2010 at 8:19 pm | # | Reply

      The movie was part of the original series and people have already said everything else you said.

    • Monty Prime
      Monty Prime
      June 13, 2010 at 8:20 pm | # | Reply

      Also, Hotshot?

      SHAAAAAAAAME.

  6. FirstReality
    FirstReality
    June 13, 2010 at 6:01 pm | # | Reply

    Ethan seems bitter – someone should tell him to lighten up and enjoy the game that some of us won’t be able to play because we don’t own a system that’ll run it. :(

    • Monty Prime
      Monty Prime
      June 13, 2010 at 8:20 pm | # | Reply

      You seem to have a computer…

  7. Andrusi
    Andrusi
    June 13, 2010 at 11:25 pm | # | Reply

    I love how some dude commented at TNI about how nobody’s ever heard of those comics.

    You know, since the original cartoon, Beast Machines, and the UT are a bunch of obscure comic books.

  8. Caboose
    Caboose
    June 14, 2010 at 12:33 am | # | Reply

    I thought the boasting point was the whole bit about WFC being the first to show the beginning of the war, rather than being the first to show Cybertron..?

    • TexasNinjaBuzzard
      TexasNinjaBuzzard
      June 14, 2010 at 4:33 am | # | Reply

      I’m just a TF fan and not a serious geek about it (except for Animated, ‘cuz come on) but off the top of my head: Orion Pax the Librarian and Megatron the Miner call shenanigans. The beginning of the factional war has also been done to death, even if it usually only gets a momentary flashback.

  9. ProzacMan
    ProzacMan
    June 14, 2010 at 5:20 am | # | Reply

    I think they may have meant hasn’t been done in a video game. Or at least been playable in a video game.

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